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How Could Drew Have Not Known the Group's Songs?

posted 14 years ago by HarlowMGM
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Even if she is supposed to be younger than her actual age in the movie (and it's not really suggested she is) she would have heard many of the band's songs on oldies radio or fiddling with the radio or even shopping and having them piped in at stores (remember that famous scene in ABOUT A BOY?), to say nothing of seeing a video or two on VH1 while channel-surfing. And then of course, Drew was exactly the right age in the 1980's for the TIGER BEAT market and would certainly have known the big pop stars of the day (and probably had pictures of them on her wall). The older sister would have been 20-something in the 1980's, same age as Hugh and a big fan no doubt but she would not likely have been the intesne fan like the teenaged crowd of the era, which would have included Drew.

[–] Ciderdrinker 14 years ago

Your arithmetic is flawed. The film was released in 2007. Sophie states during the movie that her sister is 38 and seven years older than her, making her 31, meaning she was born in 1976. The band's main hits were around 1984, when she would have been only 8, but her sister 15, which makes perfect sense in terms of her sister being obsessed with pop music teen idols in 1984 while she was not.

As to your assertion that Rhonda would have been 20-something in the 1980s, she would, in fact, not have turned 21 until 1990 (38 in 2007, so born in 1969)

By the time Sophie hit her mid teens the band's heyday had passed, their former core teen audience now grown up, and she would have been more into the new bands of the day (she would not have hit 15 until 1991). She does not say she had not heard of the music. In fact she clearly states she knew of the band, and specifically commented on their ridiculous clothes and hairstyles, which is pefectly plausible for someone who spent most of her teens in the 90s, but that her sister had been more into them.

Also, this is a rom-com, not a genre known for its gritty realism.